Sandra Gea 

I began to unravel my personal story. After several attempts at different traditional and alternative therapeutic modalities, I noticed that my highly sensitive and empathic being was longing for spaces of trust, deep connection, compassion and self-empowerment where my body, mind and spirit would be equally addressed and validated. 

I remember the morning I woke up in an aching body and, out of the intense frustration and despair I felt, I took my healing in my own hands and began listening to my intuition and inner guidance. 

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Feeling and addressing the messages of my flesh and bones - a fair share of the many faces and manifestations of trauma - brought me home. It taught me that in becoming literate with our body language and cues, we can create the optimal conditions for our healing because:

• Our body is always communicating with us.

• Our body knows how to heal, we are in charge with providing a safe environment for our healing.

• Our body tells our story. Our experiences and emotions are valid.

• Our body is a vehicle for our ancestral heritage as wisdom and unprocessed intergenerational trauma.

• Our body has a unique chemistry, wiring and coding. Each healing journey is unique and specific to an individual.

• The present moment is the container where the body alchemises the past and creates new pathways for the future.

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Entering the healing journey means embracing a complex layer of emotions and body sensations which are sometimes overwhelming and difficult to voice with words but that can find shape and meaning with the process of cutting and pasting pictures because: ​

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• Collage supports us in owning our narratives and the emotions associated with them.

• Collage gives voice and shape to the narratives of our subconscious.

• Collage helps us re-narrate our personal stories.

• Collage materializes into pictures the wisdom and medicine from our body and our imaginal realm.

• Collage carries the metaphors and mirrors to our embodiment.

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During our sessions, I am committed to: 

• hold a safe, judgment free, trusting sacred space. 

• acknowledge, hear and see your being and human journey as a whole.

• meet you where you are on your life path.

• encourage you to express yourself from your truth without filters.

• provide tools that respect your nature, pace, and intention for your journey.

• support you as you open to your own medicine and wisdom.

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We are likely to be a good fit if you resonate with some statements below:​

• you have been called "the black sheep of the family", "the rebel", "the impossible one".

• you resonate with the tale "The ugly duckling" as told by Dr Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who run with the Wolves.

• you are a first generation immigrant or expat. 

• you have tried traditional talk therapy or other alternative modalities but still miss your mojo.

• you identify as a highly sensitive or empath.

• you are open and curious to experience new approaches to deep work.​​

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My practice is trauma informed with certifications delivered by the Trauma Informed Practices and Expressive Arts Institute.

I am grateful for the teachings and books of John O'Donohue, Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Emily Conrad, Seena Frost, Miyamoto Musashi, Lao Tzu, Bruce Lee, Bessel van der Kolk, James Hillman, Alaine Duncan, Gabrielle Roth, Kristin Linklater, Imi Lo and Alexander Lowen that have supported my journey and continue to inspire my practice and refinement of the self.